Excellent choice. I will let the guys in the office and on the factory floor know that there may be some additional requests. :corn:

Kenny, I had already started your order form and had some of the form already filled out. :)

Chris, Just curious...what would be the primary use for this very nicely appointed gun?

Bill, I'll see what I can do about the additional 24" barrels. Are all of the barrel sets to be Damascus?

DH, 00 frame, three dog with a vizsla on the bottom, checked triggers, straight stock, 2 1/2” DAH, 14 7/8” LOP, manual safety, best available steel barrels in a 4 barrel set. 28 with 32” IM/F, 28 26”CYL/IC, 410 30” F/F, 410 27” sk1/sk2, oh yeah, splinter, splinter, semi beaver, semi beaver......with a snipe, a bobwhite and a dove engraved in the stock medalion.

“BOSS, de plane, de plane!!

Yikes! I'll have to substitute a larger stock medallion to get all those birds in. This ain't Noah's Ark, ya know! :) Also you'll need to supply a photograph or drawing of the Vizsla since they have not been imported into the United States yet. :banghead: Can we use the snipe on the small bore brochure that's impersonating a woodcock as a model for your stock medallion? Questions, questions! (BTW, on behalf of Parker Bros., thanks for your order.)

Garry,
Sporting clays mostly, but I have a few of similar configuration that I hunt pheasant with.

Yes sir. I'll finest Damascus if you please.

circa 1886-1916 BHE 10ga 30" bernard #3 frame M/F, 8lbs 6oz, labs on each side with ducks in flight, bottom engraving duck in flight in relief. Stocked 1 5/8" x 2 3/4"x 14 to a skeleton butt plate plated nickel. Duck gun of course.

Dear Sir please find my enclosed order for a Parker shotgun as follows. Grade AHE 28 ga on the 00 frame with two sets of Damascus barrels. The first set should be 26 inches choked CYL/IC the second set also Damascus will be 30 inches choked a tight modified and full. Straight grip stock of the finest Circassian walnut available to a skeleton butt. LOP is to be 14 3/4 DAH 2 1/2, Double triggers with the front trigger articulated and both to be checkered. Splinter forearm. Please find the enclosed photos of my hunting companions both past and present for the engraver. Gunner is to be on the right side pointing a grouse, Daisy on the left with a pheasant and Ilsa on the floor plate with a quail. Please rush as bird season will be here before we know it.

Sincerely,
C.O.B.

Craig, I sure hope we can get this finely appointed gun to you by the duck season. I saw a several sets of 10 gauge Bernard barrels in the warehouse. Actually, I collected all the Bernard barrels I found and put them aside for discriminating buyers.

Thanks for responding!

Dear Mr. C.O.B.,

On behalf of Parker Brothers I want to thank you for your order. Rest assured we will give your order our fullest attention and will work to have your gun completed in time for you to open your bird season. I have already personally placed the photographs that you sent in the hands of the head engraver. I must admit, neither he nor I had ever seen photographs in color before, but he assures me that the photos will serve his work well. Because we anticipated a larger than average number of high grade gun orders, we have already begun basic work for a variety of gauges and configurations. This should allow us to fill your order in a timely fashion.

Again, thank your for your order. We will keep you informed of its progress.

Sincerely,

Garry L. Gordon (on behalf of Parker Bros.)

Dear Sir please find my enclosed order for a Parker shotgun as follows. Grade AAE 16 gauge on the 0 frame, double gold triggers, engraved hammers. Whitworth 28 inches choked IC/mod with double ivory beads and 2.5 inch wedge, deep chisel engraving and a small 1/8 inch ring engraved at muzzle end. Pistol grip stock of the finest Circassian walnut available to a skeleton butt with standard checkering in AA pattern in 32 LPI with LOP at 14 1/4 and DAH 2 1/2. Gold pistol grip cap engraved RWVL 1947 - 20. Splinter forearm with ejectors and full 32 LPI checkering and the inside iron engine turned. Shallow engraved skeleton butt and deep chisel scroll and flower engraving on the frame with engine turnings on frame and barrel flats. Both the trigger bow and barrel lever are pierced and engraved.

Sincerely,
Robin

I could be quite satisfied with that as well as long as it’s fluid steel barrels with 3 1/2” chambers :cool:

More than just a couple of us have forgotten that multi barrel sets are not allowed. In the spirit of simplicity, we should stick with the one barrel set rule. Anyone can throw a hammer into the thread by ordering a nine barrel set.

Dear Sir:

Your order has been received and has been put on "rush" status. I have personally selected a blank for the stock that will accept well the 32 LPI checking you desire. I'm confident you will be pleased. We look forward to delivering your gun as per your order.

Thank you again,

Sincerely,

Garry L Gordon (on behalf of Parker Bros.)

Whew! I was hoping someone would remember this was a one gun, one barrel set question. I'm going to have a dickens of a time sorting the results. Thanks, Bill, for the reminder.

Shall I consider this a substitute order? :)

Mr. Gordon,
I have received news from the order department that only one set of barrels may be requested. While this news is disturbing please complete my order with the 26 inch barrels as originally requested.

In regards to the color photographs I have been working with the Eastman Kodak company on color photographs and while these might not be real clear we are getting better every day.

Thank you for the prompt response regarding my order even though it can't be completed as requested. Perhaps I will have sufficient funds to order a lower grade gun with the 30 inch barrels. We all know two guns are better than one.

Sincerely,
C.O.B.

Dear Mr. C.O.B.:

On behalf of the Order Dept., and most assuredly myself, I apologize for the confusion with your order. The 26 inch barrels are already being struck, and the work on your gun is underway. Your excellent colored photographs have received high praise from everyone in our engraving department and I have personally examined the preliminary engraving work — I am confident you will be pleased.

Please, again, accept my apologies for the confusion with your original order. Should you decide to place an additional order, we pledge to give it our utmost attention.

Faithfully,

Garry L. Gordon (On behalf of Parker Bros.)

No but it would be an excellent addition :whistle:

30" A1 Special 12 gauge, 2 barrel set. 1 Frame, straight grip, AAA wood, double triggers, 15 and 25 k chokes, rose and scroll engraving, 14 1/2" LOP to a leather covered pad. Second barrel 30" choked 5 and 15k, in a fitted case, with accessories.

Well, thank you for the reminder that this is a 1 gun deal! I apologize for the apparent greed of my original order.

I would like to revise my order to an 0 frame top lever 20, in B configuration, with 30” Bernard barrels, choked IC and Mod. Please use the same dimensions as the previous gun, but would like a full ball grip with MWR engraved on the grip medallion. I would prefer an ivory front bead and ivory mid bead. I would like the triggers checked, and set as far apart from each other as is practical. Please fit the gun with a “fishtail” top lever. I would like the gun to be as close to 6 lbs as possible.

Thwnk you for your patience

An AHE 28-gauge Skeet Gun with 28-inch barrels, vent rib, beavertail forearm, straight grip, double triggers and the banana leaf engraving on the breechballs.

GH 10 gauge magnum with 32 inch barrels - full/full

GH 12 gauge with 30 inch barrels - mod/full

GH 20 gauge with 28 inch barrels - IC/Mod

GH 28 gauge with 28 inch barrels - IC/Mod

Mr. Gordon,

As you may recall from our last correspondence my request for an additional set of barrels for my order was unable to be filled. I have calculated the savings of the barrels and with a small windfall from Uncle Sam I would like to request an additional Parker.

I would like a GHE grade also in 28 gauge with the afore mentioned 30 inch barrels. Instead of the usual floor plate engraving I'd like the portrait of my upstart pup Ike within the circle, please refer to the enclosed photograph. Same stock dimensions as previous order.

Please advise on the additional cost of upgraded wood and skeleton but treatment.

Yours Truly,
C.O.B.

Without pictures, IKE doesn't exist. Let's see the pup.

If that's true, I assume Mr. Murphy has no guns

I notice that no one has dared to order a 32" .410, probably because we believe it can't be built. However, rumor has it that such a gun does exist. I don't know who owns it, but I think I know who used to own it. Knock yourselves out, I won't order it. Someone step up to the plate.

John Dallas, thank you for the recognition. In the next couple of years, I will try to remedy this doubt. After 25 years with "The Lovely Linda", I am not so much a hermit. I am almost ready to make a hotel reservation for the Southern, have filled my gas tank and brought my tires up to pressure in preparation.

Hopefully, those tires are under your Ford 460 Country Squire wagon. (From an old Ford retiree)

Linda made me sell the wagon, but I know who has it, and I may be able to get her back, the Ford, not Linda. My Harley is gone too. I have attended the Southern since year one, but have been absent lately. I won the .410 overall in year one, with a GH Parker. I left for home without knowing I had won. Ron Kirby delivered my award weeks later.

Here you go Bill. This is Ike at about 18 mos quail hunting at Morrison Pines in January.

Mr Allen:

Work on your order is already underway and we expect completion within two months. Thank you for your order.

Dear Mr. Ray:

We have made the revisions to your order as requested. After consulting with our shop foremen, they have reported that they can indeed produce the gun you have specified at the desired weight, however, we strongly recommend loads of no more than 3/4 oz., and emphatically do not recommend using “Texas Loads” that are in vogue at present.

Faithfully,

Parker Bros.

Dear Mr. Noreen:

We are pleased to receive your order, and I have personally seen to it’s entry in our order book. We have carefully secreted this particular order book, along with several others from this period, in the usual spot for safe keeping in hopes that in the future researchers will be able to examine these records.

Faithfully,

Garry L Gordon (Parker Bros. Sales Agent)

Memorandum to Mr. Mills Morrison, Esq.

Subject: Your Recent Order For FOUR Parker Guns

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Although we are able to produce the four shotguns to your desired specifications, three of your gun orders will be delayed due to a recent unexpected increase in orders. Please advise as to which specific gun is to receive priority work so that we may be able to fill this order quickly.

Parker Bros

Mr. Anderson:

We are glad to learn of the windfall you are to receive from your uncle. We sincerely hope these funds are not part of a posthumous bequest.

Regarding the added cost for upgrades, there will be none owing to the fact that your status as a Parker customer to date has been extraordinary.

Parker Bros

Dear Mr. Gordon,

Thank you for the accomodation. My local ammunition purveyor tells me that 3/4 oz loads can be difficult to obtain. Please make the gun beefy enough to handle standard 7/8 oz field loads. Should the maker determine that the gun should weigh slightly more, then that will be okay with me. I am not aware of any 20 gauge “Texas” loads as you mention. Here in Texas, we use smallbore guns for doves, quail and snipe, and Big guns for deer turkey and waterfowl. I do hear that there is a fad out west of shooting 20 gauge guns at waterfowl using very long, heavy load shells. Down here in the Lone Star State we would call that “bringing a knife to a gunfight”! I sure am anxious to see this gun with those fancy Bernard barrels!

Thanks again pardner for working with me!

For Garry’s question about a No. 2 frame 26” 10ga weight, I have exactly that in a two barrel 10 and 12 set. With the 10ga Damascus barrels, factory choked cyl and cyl, on a 2 frame CH, the weight is 7lbs 3oz.

I have a case of RST 1 1/4 oz 5’s and sometimes use it on pheasant. I should use it more . The gun was originally sold to New Hampshire, I assume for woods grouse but it is heavy for a grouse gun.